ResearchRevealed is an innovative Research Information System (RIS) and Impact Recording tool developed by IT Services R&D/ILRT at the University of Bristol in partnership with Research & Enterprise Development (RED) and the Finance Office.

The ResearchRevealed system provides researchers and academic support staff with integrated views over publications, people, departments, groups, grants and both internally and externally obtained funding data. An associated Impact Recording tool allows academics to quickly capture evidence of their own research impact from external websites, recording this alongside their traditional research outputs data.

For further details about the ResearchRevealed project and system, please contact: Simon Price or Damian Steer.

External consultant, Nicky Ferguson, has published a summative evaluation of the ResearchRevealed project.

“ResearchRevealed is a JISC-funded project based at the University of Bristol and running from August 2009 to May 2011. The general aims of the project were to facilitate customisable access to integrated research repositories and enable views of the real impact of research in its wider context (for example in industry, in society, and across the UK research community). Also to explore the use of semantic web technology to facilitate central repository information integration and to extend it with external sources of data such as data from research and funding councils.

I was asked to conduct a summative evaluation of ResearchRevealed towards the end of the project. I conducted interviews, face to face and by email. and also created an online questionnaire for this purpose. In addition I attended several team and steering group meetings as an observer and followed these up with conversations with some of those attending. I have also discussed issues with Phil Cross who is conducting the technical evaluation and whose report should be read alongside this one.”

The full report is available from his website and here: Evaluation of ReseachRevealed project (pdf).